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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Huntsville, AL

August 8, 2026Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2026, 12:06 PM CDT for Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2026, 12:06 PM CDT (17:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2026, 2:51 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Colbert County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2026-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1691 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2026-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1691 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 1:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLawrence38 min
Aug 8, 3:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNJackson51 min
Aug 8, 3:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNColbert46 min
Aug 8, 4:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMarshall42 min
Aug 8, 4:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin33 min
Aug 8, 4:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNColbert48 min
Aug 8, 5:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNCullman28 min
Aug 8, 5:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMarshall24 min
Aug 8, 5:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMarshall19 min
Aug 8, 5:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb33 min
Aug 8, 6:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb36 min
Aug 8, 4:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin32 min
Aug 8, 6:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin30 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.